Posted on 04/09/2015 4:51:29 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
California lawmakers on Wednesday pushed forward a bill that would ban parents from citing their personal beliefs as a reason to let their school-going children remain unvaccinated.
The measure passed the state Senate health committee by a vote of 6-2, the bill's co-author, Democrat Richard Pan, said in a statement.
"I've personally witnessed the suffering caused by vaccine-preventable diseases, and all children deserve to be safe at school," said Pan, who is also a pediatrician.
"The personal belief exemption is now putting other school children and people in our community in danger."
Pan proposed the bill, which would leave in place medical exemptions to vaccinations, in the wake of a major measles outbreak in the state that began at Disneyland in December.
All told, more than 150 people across the United Sates have been diagnosed with measles in recent months, 126 of them in California.
The outbreak renewed debate over the so-called anti-vaccination movement, in which fears about potential side effects of vaccinations, fueled by now-debunked research suggesting a link to autism, prompted a small minority of parents to refuse them for their children.
The proposal, which must clear several other legislative hurdles before a possible Senate floor vote, prompted roughly four hours of heated discussion that saw several people removed for shouting down lawmakers, the Sacramento Bee newspaper reported.
Detractors of the bill, including Republican senator Jim Nielsen who voted against it on Wednesday, said it tramples on a parent's rights, the Bee reported.
"I have very profound feelings about parental rights and responsibilities and great dismay in American society over the decades how much that parental right, that parental responsibility has diminished," Nielsen said, according to the newspaper.
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How about colored arm bands for the un-vaxxed parents and children?
Perhaps California is passing these stupid laws in order to get people to move out of California. The less people the more water they will have for those foolish enough to remain.
So they’re going to round up all the illegal folks in CA who haven’t gotten their shots and are spreading the old childhood diseases eradicated in the past.....NOT
The power of corporate elites over our political system as in pharma is on display here, I do believe.
Force millions of illegals on Americans. Force school age American children to be vaccinated for said illegals. Makes liberal sense.
“The personal belief exemption is now putting other school children and people in our community in danger.”
“All told, more than 150 people across the United Sates have been diagnosed with measles in recent months, 126 of them in California.”
Yet Comrade Pan intentionally over looks the rapid influx of
wetbacks as the source of the problem. He seems more interested
in curbing parents rights and expanding the states power
than the health of the children. That’s your typical
California liberal.
I think yellow armbands and stars were used somewhere before.....Sarc
“Perhaps California is passing these stupid laws in order to get people to move out of California.”
They don’t seem to have a problem with wetbacks invading. Of
course that makes sense because they are the perfect subjects
to replace it’s natural born citizens. California’s toast,
cede it to Mexico and get rid of the liability because soon
it’s going to be another self imposed welfare state.
Well that settles it. Injecting people with aluminum and mercury must be OK.
As Cali is so pro abortion, it’s only natural that they’d make vaccines required. Children of God for Life’s list of vaccines made with aborted baby: http://www.cogforlife.org/vaccineListOrigFormat.pdf
I am a big fan of vaccines. All of my kids had all recommended vaccines (except Gardasil). However, I strongly disapprove of compelling parents to violate their conscience. Whether they attribute their objection to religion, to moral objections to the way vaccines are made, or to medical objections to specific chemicals in vaccines, in the absence of an immediate danger to a child’s life, parents have a nearly absolute right to make medical decisions for their children. California is, as usual, wrong on this decision.
Better suit up; many here do not side with you on this. They believe that government knows best.
Government is often right and often wrong. That is why government power should be limited. Recommending vaccination is fine. Mandating it is overstepping the bounds of the Enumerated Powers.
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